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John Delaney exits talks on his future, and...

Other great images from today, selected by Deputy Picture Editor Laura Hutton

Mon 15 Apr 2019

ON THE SPOT: Former FAI chief John Delaney leaves the Carlton hotel near Dublin Airport on Monday evening after a meeting with the organisation's board. He has offered to voluntarily step aside from his role as executive vice-president. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin

DISASTER IN PARIS: Flames and smoke erupt from the roof of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris after a fire broke out in the major landmark on Monday afternoon. Photograph: Patrick Anidjar/AFP/Getty Images

MAY THE ROADS BE WITH YOU: Adrian Hanna, dressed as a Tusken Raider from Star Wars, poses with an R2D2 replica built by himself and his son Jack, at the renaming of the R 2D2 road in Malin Head, Co Donegal, ahead of the Malin Head Star Wars Festival. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

FACING CHALLENGES: Prof David Gillivray, University of the West of Scotland, performers Laura Rossi and Maria Corcoran, and Bernadette Quinn (second from right), of the Technical University, Dublin, at the announcement that Humanities in the European Research Area will invest €20 million in 20 research teams from across Europe as part of a joint research programme which aims to generate new insights into major social, cultural, and political challenges facing Europe and the world. Photograph: Marc O'Sullivan

ANALYSE THAT: Lorcan Malone, chief executive of the Analytics Institute; Jennifer Cruise, head of Data Science, and Fergal Collins, chief executive, Aon Centre for Innovation and Analytics, at the launch of the Analytics Institute Fellowship & Industry Awards, to take place in June.

HEARTY MINIATURE: Scientists at the University of Tel Aviv in Israel unveil a 3D print of a heart with human tissue and vessels, calling it a first and a "major medical breakthrough" that advances possibilities for transplants. Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images

EXTINCTION REBELLION: Jessica Winter sings on a boat in the centre of a traffic junction as environmental campaigners block Oxford Circus in London during a coordinated protest by the Extinction Rebellion group, who aim to stop traffic for up to five days in locations across the city. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty

SUMO TOURNAMENT: Sumo wrestlers perform acrobatics for a Shokkiri demonstration during the Honozumo, a ceremonial sumo tournament at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan. More than 6,000 spectators enjoyed the one-day event. Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA

SINDOOR JATRA: Devotees play traditional musical instruments while celebrating the Sindoor Jatra festival, in which vermillion powder is flung about, at Thimi, Bhaktapur, Nepal. The festival marks the Nepalese New Year and the beginning of the spring season. Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

BODY PIERCINGS: A Hindu devotee shows his mouth and body pierced with metal skewers during Chadak rituals, held to worship the Hindu deity Lord Shiva, in Kolkata, India. Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

AND THEN THEY WERE THREE: A female Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) crawls in mud in an enclosure in preparation for insemination at the Suzhou Zoo in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China, in a picture from May 2015. The female turtle has died after a further insemination operation, leaving only three known surviving individuals of the species in the world. Photograph: EPA

BEYOND UKIP: Former Ukip party leader Nigel Farage visits a barber shop in Shoreham, West Sussex, during a walkabout ahead of a rally for his new Brexit Party at Brighton City Airport. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire